FWIW, Rhode Island is overwhelmingly liberal (33 of 38 state senators; 64 of 75 state reps; the Governor; and all four members of the US Congress are registered Democrats). With that being said, many mayors (including the largest cities) are governed by Republicans.

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I haven't had a hot one yet, but I haven't had every lobster roll. I'm a strident Maine-style fan, so a hot lobster roll would not be well received. The one variation we run into a lot is bun/roll size — I've seen everything from split-top hot dog bun to garlic pepper-crusted torpedo rolls.

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Is a lobster roll at all worth it outside of Main/RI? I love lobsters, and I'm pro-roll, but the rare times you see them outside of their natural habitat lobster rolls are mighty expensive to justify eating the meat with anything but butter/vinegar.

Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

Technically, you are incorrect. The official state name is, "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

"Rhode Island" officially refers only to Aquidneck Island — which is where Newport is located and was named by Verrazzano because it reminded him of the Island of Rhodes — while the landlocked portion of the state comprises the Providence Plantations.

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that being said I would wager that even though this board is probably split politically (I'll guess roughly 50/50) I think EVERYONE can agree that this whole campaign season was very volatile and taxing for supporters of all sides. Its not outside the realm of possibility, IMO, that people are just generally tired of politics right now and may not be interested in watching the inauguration, regardless of whether it's celebratory for them or not.

You 'all missed the point. With Chuck graduating, the Hokies could use a player of Hunter's caliber to keep the lunch pail's mentality going. Not that Hunter is afraid of competition , but there is clearer path to get on the field early.

How is there a clearer path to see the field early if you weren't speaking to clark's position specifically? Everyone else is returning. Prior to the bowl game I could have seen hunter getting some of the WHIP reps while easing him into the rover role, but with how shegog played not sure how he will get used outside of STs freshmen year.

Gotcha thanks. It will be interesting to see how they use him, you're right he is physical but also ran a laser timed 4.42, I know bud feels if he's one of the best players he'll get him on the field in some capacity this coming year. Now just gotta have BudFu close over the next 9 days.

In all seriousness, Xavier McKinney recommitting to Bama over Clemson might be a sign they feel out of the race on Hunter. Can't say for sure, but everyone thought he was a lock to Clemson and Alabama must have hard swooped late leading up to the UA game.

Biggest question is whether or not he's still taking his Auburn and Alabama OVs. I find it hard to believe he would go visit Auburn as scheduled for one day on a Thursday and then come back Friday for this. Hopefully this means he has cancelled.

Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

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Plus Dory's parents, which is really who was lost (but not from their point of view), because Dory was looking for them, but they weren't looking for her anymore, although they didn't know where she was, so they technically found her as well, making it a double Finding Dory.

If you're reading the above post and thinking, "is this guy serious?!?," you can safely assume I'm not.

Email joe and he will take care of it because he's awesome like that...

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Not sure if bigger boat is required to fit all these newcomers poised to make an impact, or if a bigger boat is needed before we can catch all these big fish we're after. The phrasing leads me to the former, the JAWS gif leads me to the latter...then again attrition talk leans former...

My interpretation: a lot of big time recruits are seriously interested in us, more than we may currently have scholarship room for. So there will likely be significant attrition to bring on what could be a monster recruiting class, assuming everything falls perfectly.

It is no coincidence that Holston committed before the last big weekend, Proctor committed at the UA AA game, and that Hunter is committing before the next big weekend. This staff is doing a good job of maximizing the hype.

Whereas Auburn tries to maximize hype by having one of our guys de-commit right in the midst of the best comeback in school history...

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Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

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Not gonna lie, this would be a great birthday present if he does commit to the Good Guys on that day.

“I’ve been here 23 years and he’s arguably the best player in college football in my time. It would be hard to name another player who had more impact on the game than what Corey Moore had that season.” - Bud Foster

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This is honestly why I cant stand that fan base. You won the natty LAST YEAR and FIVE OUT OF THE LAST 10. There are some fans who never see their team win a Natty in their lifetime. Yet you lose this year and destroy your television. Ok. Have fun spending your money on a new one asshole.

That team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked! I mean I've seen teams suck before, but that was the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked.

Nothing, and I mean nooooothing compares to the Cowboys fan who lost his mind after the 6-1 Cowboys lost to the Redskins a couple years ago.

Warning, there's a bunch of NSFW language, so at least use headphones

Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

See this is why all / any fan base shouldn't take this game too seriously. Life's not worth ruining over a bunch of 18-22 year olds (or pros if you like the NFL more) running around a field with a ball in their hand. And for the pro's, they'll go home to their millions of dollars while you have to go to home depot and spend thousands on the damage you just did to your home.

I see Eddie Murphy is trying out for the lead role in the John Blake biopic

Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

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Not sure. I assume everyone does, but I'm constantly amazed at how many hokie fans don't know TKP exists.

I know when we were recruiting Mook Reynolds his dad became a member and was a regular poster. So there is certainly a precedence.

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Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

yeah, but Mook's not a recruit anymore so it isn't exactly relevant to the question.

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Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

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Hey guys, it's been a fun basketball season and recruiting cycle so far, but I'm taking this moment to announce that I will not be online 1/20 for the commitment. May not hear from me again until football season. Any questions, just check the Virginian-Pilot or Wavy 10 next weekend, not the sports page.

Let's Go!

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-What we do is, if we need that extra push, you know what we do? -Put it up to fully dipped? -Fully dipped. Exactly. It's dork magic.

I am relaxed, just not counting on him. Give me Keene, Hooker, Kearney, Capehart etc anyday. They haven't led 6 schools on until the very end like Hunter has. Even Sweat and Nnadi were pretty much down to 2 schools which I can understand but not 6. D will be nasty with or without him.

So you don't want Hunter because he has 6 finalists? Interesting.
I am going to be happy to celebrate him jumping on board next weekend. Of course he told the VT coaches he is on board about a month ago....hope that was the truth.....

Exactly. It's not like he's dating six women at the same time and choosing. I'd rather have someone explore and mull over their options and then pick VT. That's a statement. I am, however, concerned he might not pick us.

Didn't say I didn't want him. Said we will be fine either way. If he told our coaches he was coming a month ago (which I doubt), then he is playing all these other schools. There are still plenty of kids that explore their options thoroughly, make a firm decision and stick with it without turning the process into a circus.

If I had a kid that was being recruited by multiple D1 schools I would advise them to enjoy the process because it's not going to happen again. I would also tell them to be sure when they commit. Maybe that's what Hunter is doing. It's not an easy decision for a 16-18 year old.

I agree and would advise the same. But he has been enjoying for 3 plus years and obviously still enjoying it. There is no way he is still genuinely considering 6 schools at this point but that keeps him in the spotlight as long as possible. That's all I am saying. Again, love for him to be a Hokie but we will be fine either way.

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I'll be bummed if hunter doesn't sign with us but I'm assuming he is just enjoying his free visits being a young adult. I know I would. Maybe he's enjoying his visits because he knows he saying close to home!

Hunter loves the spotlight. I can understand that. He is an 18 year old with a bright future. Anytime a positive tweet is made about him, he retweets it. I don't blame him. A kid like him probably wants to get to play early and get to the NFL as soon as possible. No Chuck Clark and our track record of putting DBs in the NFL has to be attractive to someone of his personality. That gives me a good feeling.

BUT, it seems as if Tech has been the favorite for awhile. The fact that he keeps pushing back his commitment date concerns me. While I do think he will commit on January 20th, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't. Either he is milking this attention for everything it has, or he is looking for another school to surpass Tech. He has done an excellent job of keeping people on his toes.

Whatever he does, I wish him the best. I do believe this will be a solid defensive class, with or without Hunter, but a commitment like him can alter how others see your program for years to come, especially now that it looks like Hokie football is on the way back to being a power. If other big time recruits see Hunter commit, they'll start paying attention. They'll see an offense that is exciting and predicated on putting players in position to succeed and they'll see a defense that, with the correct personnel, can dominate opposing offenses.

If Hunter signs with Virginia Tech Friday, it could be the single biggest signing we've had since Michael Vick. I really hope the coaches do an excellent job of making him forget everything about Gainesville, Florida, in the next five days.

Or Single biggest signing since Kevin Jones, or Marcus Vick, or Tyrod Taylor, or Kendal Fuller. We have had more than a couple big signings since Vick unless you meant his stupid brother Marcus, which we still had two after that. Remember MV7 was not a huge signing. He was quietly playing second fiddle in VA high school football to Ronald Curry.

I was wondering how MV7 was viewed when he was signed. I saw Mike as a 10th grader at Ferguson High and started telling everyone that would listen that he was better than Curry. His senior year at Warwick, Curry went undefeated and won the state C'ship at Hampton. They blew out everyone but Warwick that year. The score was 27-17 I believe. Most Hampton games were something like 55-7 that year. They were loaded......

All of those guys were big signngs in their own right. But Michael Vick put our program on the map. Fuente will be a second year head coach, and if we already have 5-stars committing to us, after a 10-win season, that'd be bigger than all of those, IMO.

This kid has a announcement set Jan 20th? Yet he is supposed to be visiting Auburn that day? Should we seriously be worried about Auburn? I dunno guys, either he is taking full advantage of this recruitment or we have memoirs of J. Sweat coming back. Either way, with this new Hokies Coaching staff more national attention is coming back to us. We may not get everyone our first year with Coach Fu but more kids are paying attention to what is going on in Blacksburg.

Everyone assumes it's going to be VT or Pitt. Rumor was his coach was pushing hard for him to go to Pitt. He was on his official visit to Pitt this weekend and will take his official to VT next weekend. He seems to be playing his decision very close to the vest.

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Being that I have no Saucers, I've watched Twitter hard and my hopes flutter every time I see Charlie Wiles like the D Hunter posts when someone retweets his Fla jersey photo shoot....almost like hes saying, this is going to be great. That or I picture Wiles being like...'what does this button do?'

‘Boy, wake up, we’re going over the mountain,’ and that was code for we’re going to watch Virginia Tech play football today,'

As in, "hey, remember when We let you do the reveal of our badass surprise uniforms for Bristol?" Well here's a picture of that stuff in case you don't.

He's commuting during a HS bball game at Indian river tomorrow. I think 7ish...totally guessing

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Good gracious we are putting the full court press on this kid. I can't remember a time that we've recruited a single player to this extent. All of the players are tweeting at him, ex Hokies are tweeting at him, Fuente seemingly tweeting about him. THIS is a welcome change

The rules on using social media for recruiting have changed as well- in the past coaches, teams etc. couldn't publicly interact w/recruits on social media. Now they're allowed (which is why the VT football account flooded people with retweets of Devon Hunter on August 1st).

depending on your political stance, it's either "Morning in America" or "Mourning in America"

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Won't downvote you because you're new here, and might not have known any better.

That said, don't talk about politics on TKP. That's a quick path to a rough spanking.

Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

Joe - "The first rule of TKP is we do not talk about religion or politics. The second rule of TKP is we do not talk about religion or politics."
TKPer - "Shouldn't it be 'the first rule of TKP is we do not talk about TKP?'"
Joe - "Why the hell would that be a rule? Tell all your friends about TKP. What's wrong with you?"

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Don't let this comment take away from the fact that Arkansas blew a 24 point 2nd half lead in the Belk Bowl.
Don't let the Belk Bowl take away from the fact that Matt Ryan blew a 25 point 2nd half lead in the Super Bowl.

If Hunter decide not to commit to VT, I won't put this on the coaching staff. This current administration has made leaps and bounds in terms of "modern" recruiting and they literally used everything in their arsenal for him to commit.

I realize there are no "moral victories" in recruiting but I think this was a "win-win" recruitment for our coaching staff regardless of the outcome.

While no coach can ever 'control' these decisions, ultimately results matter. These are the types of recruiting battles we must win in order to take the next step. He is just one player (at a playmaking position for us) that isn't going to make or break us, but the first data point in a trend has to start somewhere...

With this kind of effort and momentum and re-branding, heavy emphasis on the latter two, I don't think the previous staff had an issue as much with effort.

I think the biggest thing with this new staff was a refreshing of the message. It became stale repetition of 'this staff cant recruit or win big games' as if they somehow forgot that same staff was able to land Kevin Jones the number one recruit in the nation, Tyrod Taylor, Ryan 'MF' Williams, Laurence Gibson, Kyshoen Jarrett, Macho Harris...

There were some misses but the overall conversation still continued that they couldnt recruit while pulling in blue-chip players like Joel Caleb, Kendall Fuller, Wyatt Teller, Holland Fisher, Tim Settle.

I think the conversation just needed to be refreshed and I think the staff as a whole has done a really great job of telling a new exciting story with a new offense and the best defensive coordinator in the game. The young and exciting brand of Virginia Tech I only see gaining momentum.